It is said that Eastern Europe is cheap, well, I am not too sure about that and I really don't understand why those living here, as I am in Budapest at the moment, do not take up arms and say 'there is something wrong'.
I wanted to buy some shaving gel yesterday and found that it is 2€ more expensive than in France. When I eat out, it costs about the same as I would expect to pay in France. Diesel today costs 326 florint, that is to say at today's rate 1.16€ (todays rate is 281 HUF=1€), that is what I would expect to pay in France. I earn an average salary in France, that is to say 4 times more than the average salary in Hungary, but prices are almost the same, some of them are even higher!
So why do the average citizens in these so called 'cheap' countries put up with pay which is so low and prices that are so high? So many questions and no answers. Although, sometimes I think the same about people like myself in France when you see the excess salaries of some members of the population.
Man needs margins to show he can do better, but shouldn't there be some sort of limit when there are those who have nothing?
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